Caramel ice cream with crunchy sesame

Name: Caramel ice cream with crunchy sesame
Prep time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Makes about 1 quart; 6 to 8 servings
Ingredients: 1 quart milk; 2¼ cups sugar; neutral oil, such as canola or grapeseed, as needed; neutral oil, such as canola or grapeseed, as needed; 1 cup sesame seeds; 12 egg yolks; neutral oil, such as canola or grapeseed, as needed

Preparation info

Makes about 1 quart ;
6 to 8
servings

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

Simple to Spectacular

By Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Mark Bittman

Published 2000

About

Our favorite: This one is bitter hardly sweet at all, despite all the sugar, because when sugar is cooked to the dark-brown stage, it loses its sweetness. Use a heavy saucepan to make the caramel and you should have no trouble at all.

Ingredients

2¼ cups sugar
1 quart milk
12 egg yolks

ice cream
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Put 1¼ cups of the sugar in a large heavy-bottomed saucepan and turn the heat to medium. Cook, occasionally shaking the pan but not stirring (you can scrape down the sides with a rubber spatula, but do not stir the sugar itself) until the sugar liquefies, bubbles, and turns dark brown, at least 10 minutes. Turn off the heat, then carefully add the milk—very carefully, as